My copy of Behind More Binoculars arrived in the post recently. Aren’t books lovely? And a book with a jacket illustration by Robert Gillmor is especially lovely. Pre-publication offer – Save 30% on Behind More Binoculars (and anything else ordered at the same time), from www.pelagicpublishing.com using offer code BMB30.
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A fun evening in Chesterfield
Yesterday evening I headed off to Chesterfield to talk to a local group of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. It was a fun evening and it’s good to talk in or near upland areas where the issues are local ones. There was a good turn out of people and I was speaking in a church hall…
Meanwhile in Scotland…
DEFRA is in denial over the ills of driven grouse shooting – they haven’t even made it to base camp yet and admitted that wildlife crime is out of control on English grouse moors. Without accepting the problem, and without accepting it as their problem, we can’t expect any action from the grouse shooter’s moll…
Labour on driven grouse shooting – shhhhhhhhh!
The English MP who is the Hen Harrier champion is Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. She has, in the past, been an outspoken critic of killing of birds of prey, especially in her own Peak District constituency. Angela was also one of very few non-Conservative MPs to speak in the Westminster Hall debate…
Wind power and nuclear
I read today’s Guardian piece by Adam Vaughan about the cost of offshore wind energy dipping below that of nuclear energy. That sounds like good news, and news that I don’t think we all expected say 10-15 years ago when these issues were very live. Those who argued for renewable energy were right to say…